more or six or seven the seeds of such a particular Flower will produce more double ones than those Plants that bring forth but four Leafs quantity for quanty of Seed and in this it is shown more than in others for there being in the middle of it no thrum as in many others it will bring forth a fine double Flower which when it hath attained to then it is to come to the bounds of Nature for it never bears Seed more but by endeavouring blows itself to death The same Rule may be observed by the curious Florist in several other Flowers that are free from any thrum in the middle as Auriculas Zeal flowers Primroses Campions and the like When in such Flowers you find one Leaf more thaâ— their usual Number then conclude Nature has prepared for alteration these Flowers will likewise bear seâ— when double as the Gilliflower African c. and iâ— sowing the seed of these double seeds they will bring yoâ— more and better Flowers a hundred to one than the single ones and in pursuing the seeds of such will be accommodated with sundry Varieties but chiefly tingeâ— with the colour of the Mother Plant and some of these will proceed as it were beyond the limits of Nature and then they will have pods in the middle or break and never more be capable of seeding July-flowers have likewise their signal which will and which will not bear seed Those that will do it iâ— the Weather or other accidents hinder not have theiâ— Horns placed in the middle of the Flowers it is also tâ— be observed in the marking of Flowers that the seeds oâ— those that are striped will bring more striped ones anâ— some of different colours and stripes their seeds being alike Choice Deirections for sowing of seed and setting c. IN sowing of Flower-seed great care must be taken oâ— at least in setting where you intend your Flowers shall thrive Observe then that the Ground bear the best proportioâ— that may be to the places or the particular Mineral veiâ— or qualit of the places where in other Parts such planâ— were wont to grow take care therefore not to set Mountainous plants in moist and low Grounds As for Bog-plants when they are transplanted into a Garden let it be in a natural or arificial Bog or near some Water by which there is great improvement of all â—orts of Flags and particularly Calamus Aromaticus or â—e spice scented Reed You may make an Artificial Bog by digging a Hole â—n any stiff Clay or there may be Clay brought if the â—round afford it not to bind the Hole or pit in the â—loor or Bottom and so thick on the sides that the â—et cannot soak thro' and fill this with Water then put 〈◊〉 Earth of the Nature of that where they grew but â—omewhat richer and tempering it with the Water make your Bog to a proportionable moisture of that from whence they were taken and planting them therein they â—hrive and flourish more than in their Native soil Things convenient to be considered in the Manner of Laying c. CUT the Things you intend to lay in its proper season after the Manner as is usual in cutting July-flowers and laying them unless in some Plants that take any way like the Vine and it is so much the more convenient in Roses and many Wood-layers that with an Awl you pierce the stock at the Place laid as it is done by circumposition viz. the Mould to be born up to the Bough which is to be taken off and then before the sap rises in February or the beginning of March it is most properly to be done During the Time of drought frequently water your Layers that is every Day or they will not come to take Regular Roots but rather a Knob or Button full of fresh sap upon the Tongue of the Cut in the Branch so laid down yet these Branches cut off by their well watering in the Summer have grown pretty well in their Transplantation The seasons most proper for this Business are in the beginning of the spring or the declining of the great summer-heat for in those seasons they more freely enjoy moisture proper for the producing Roots and are respited from excessive heat and cold Artificial Sets how to make them TO do this bare the Roots of Plants of woody substance and make a cut in the like manner of that which is made in layings from the plants and into the cleft put a stone or little plug of Wood to keep it open that gaping the part cut may turn upwards then with light Mould cover the Root three Inches and the lift so lifted up will sprout into Branches being nourished by the Root of the old Tree and when the Branches are grown cut off this plant with its Roots and it will go and thrive of itself very well and if possibly you can leave an eye on the lip of the Root which after Incision you lift up and the Branches will the more speedily issue out of the Root so cut which Method is properly called the starting a Root To make off sets of Bulbous-roots with your Nail cut it lightly on the bottom in the crown of your Root whence spring the Fibers and as a healer to the wound sprinkle some dry dust upon it and so many wounds as you make Ferrarius affirms in so many Off-sets will the Genital virtue dispose itself but this has not been frequently Experimented To change the Colour of Flowers when in Bloss m c. BUrn Brimstone under Roses and it will turn the lips and the greatest part of the fouldings while the the smoke of Tobacco will make it a red Rose turn blewish or purple Vitriol sprinkled or streaked on any Flower that is purple will turn it to deep scarlet but this will not long continue for the Leafs of the growing Flower the next Day will wither â—er Flowers you must secure from great Frosts and â—â—is likewise the Carnations or such Seeds as run the â—ard of being washed out of the Ground or by exâ—m Frosts chilled or over-frozen and in this case â—ere the snow lies too heavy on them strike it off and â—er them lest they burst and are spoiled except on â—t Beds and then there is no danger of them About the end of the Month put Mould about the â—ots of the Arunculas that have been uncovered by â—ost and where your choicest are set in Pots fill up â—e Chinks with warm Mould and so you need not House â—m because they will endure the Weather Flowers blowing and continuing PRaecoce Tulips Winter Aconite some sorts of Anemonies black Helebore Winter Cyclamen Orienâ— Jacinthis Brumal Hyacinth Levantian Narcisâ— Laurustians Primroses Mazareno However Note That these Fruits and Flowers are more â—ow or hasty according to the Heat or Coldness of the â—il as qualified by Accident or Nature Situation c. â—d that all monthly Flowers are to be understood to continue from their first appearing
lesser Flowers than some others of its â—nd having its Leafs pointed six seven or eight in â—umber of a pale yellowish Blush-colour striped on â—e inside but more on the outside with Crimson the â—ot Grumous The double yellow Crow-foot This is called the Ranuncula of Asia having its Leafs â—reading and dividing like a Carrot from the Root â—e many small stalks each producing a shining yellow â—all double Flower The Ranuncula of Aleppo This Flower is of a curious Orange-colour'd tawney and and very double striped with Yellow Carolus This Flower is curiously marked and striped with â—ades of Murry-purple thro' the several Leafs of it â—â—e at bottom and Purple Tamis making a very cuâ—ous show The Indian Fig. This springs Leafs one out of another from one Leaâ— put half into the Earth Which taking Root puts ouâ— others being a Finger thick flat and round pointed anâ— of colour a pale green showing at first brown prickleâ— at the upper end and at the tops of the Leafs the Flowers break forth set with two Rows of pale yellow Leafs having a yellow thrum tipped with red in the middle 〈◊〉 after the Flower fades the head they stood on in thâ— middle grows large in the form of a Fig but in thesâ— Countries comes not to perfection it is a tender Planâ— and must be set in Pots so that it may be Housed in thâ— Winter lest the Frost rot and destroy it White Hellebore This makes its first appearance with a round largâ— head of a green whitish colour and afterwards opens iâ— many fine green Leafs signally pleated in every part-taking a compass about each other at the bottom from whence a Stalk rises about a Yard high small Leafs extending to the middle of it which dividing into manâ— Branches bears a considerable Number of Star-like Flowers small and so a yellowish green colour The double Purple Virgins-Power This hath many woody Branches covered with a thiâ— brown out bark and green underneath winding abouâ— what it takes hold on the Leafs are at the Joints coâ—sisting of three parts of it notched on one side and somâ— on both the Flowers appear from the Joints on lonâ— Foot-stalks standing like Crosses of a sullen dark Red the outward Leafs broad and in the inward folded likâ— a Button so that the outward ones fall off before the inward ones spread themselves this is proper to be supported against a Wall and such of the small Branches aâ— in the Winter prune off in the end of March. Marum or Herb Mastick This raises about a Foot high with hard stiff stalks â—nd the many Branches into which it divides it self are â—r with fine green small Leafs two at a Joint at the â—p of the Branches it sends forth small white Flowers â—d among the Tusts downy Threads all the Plant as â—ell as Flowers being of a curious Scent and may be â—proved by Slips set in April The Autumn Mountain Crocus This is of a pale blue Colour it stands on short Foot-â—lks appearing but little above ground but soon grows â—ttle higher and is prized because it comes when oâ—er Flowers are going out being of a curious softness The Silver cupped Spanish Moley This appears with two or three long Rush like Leafs â—ling when the Stalk is at its height that aspiring a â—rd or more bearing a considerable Head of Flowers â—t soon open grow on long Foot stalks and spread â—ch the Flowers being of the Colour of Silver with â—es down them on both sides the Leafs fashioned small â—d hollow in the manner of an Encrease-well with litâ— Trouble The great yellow Frutilary This has a stalk about two Foot high the Flower is â—g small and of a pale Yellow and is well in compoâ— of a Garden among May-flowers whose Number is 〈◊〉 numerous as various As for these last Reader I have given you most of â—em in the English Names as for the Months Flowers â—ow in I have set them down particularly as you will â—d in this Book in the Months adapted to the Flower-â—arden so that nothing may be omitted to satisfie the â—ader in his Curiosity THE Gardener's Almanack For what is necessary to be done in the Green-House and Conservatory in Preserving and welâ— Ordering choice Shrubs Plants Flowers c. with the Time of Housing c. GReens as well as Flowers are to be considered and care taken of them because they are nâ— only pleasant to the Site of the Garden but serve foâ— many profitable Uses besides Adornment and Fragrancy Therefore In MARCH What things are proper to be done PLant Box in Parterres sow Bay-seeds Fir-seeds Phillyrea Alaternus and most Perennial Greens â—nd after the Equinox a few Days prune and Pine Firâ—rees sow towards the End of the Month Myrtle-berries â—eeped a while in warm Water Wrap with Straw-wisps the Tops of shorn Cyprus â—over with Straw or Pease hawm your exposed Everâ—reens as also Bays Cyprus Phillyrea Pine Fir c. â—hat are Seedlings till they have continu'd in the Nursery about three Years and are capable of being transplanted lest the sharp Winds too much dry and injure â—hem and uncover them not till the latter End of the Month or the tail of the Frost be pretty well over especially the Ever-greens lest the Wind and Sun conspire to wither and destroy them and this you may do a bleak Winds or sharp Frosts all the Winter At the latter End of this Month you may set your Orange trees Myrtles Lemmon-trees Ammammus Dates â—entisci Olenders Aloes and such like Plants that are â—ender and impatient of Cold in the Portico of your Conservatory And if the Weather be mild and warm the sharp Frosts and Winds being over you may open the Windows and Doors but do it gradually and not altogether and trust not the leaving them open a Nights â—nless the Season be very well settled and some hardy Ever-greens may be transplanted if the Season be warm â—nd temperate It is also a proper Time to raise stocks to bud Lemmons and Oranges on and to do it set the seeds early in the Month in Pots half a Dozen of the seeds of Sevil Oranges may be placed in a Pot filled with Earth viz. That Earth which is taken the first half spit under thâ— Turf in rich Pasture-ground where Cattle have much been fothered and mix of rotten Cow dung one parâ— with it and if then it happen to be too stiff sift moderately a little Lime and rotten Wood or sticks of Willows and for binding if occasion requires it add a little loamy Earth and plunge the Pots into Hot-beds which may be renewed in May and so e'er the Winteâ— the shoots will be near a Foot and in three Years fit tâ— inocculate which at the end of this Month you may also bud by placing two Buds opposite one to the other not above an Inch from the Earth In APRIL What Things are proper to be done THis Month sow Phyllerea Pine-kernels Fir-seeds Alternus and the most Sorts
and Winter-fruit for keeping and how to order them for that purpose 73 To gather and order other Stone-fruit To gather Pears the best way 74 To gather and order Apples in the best manner 75 To gather and secure Quinces from rotting c. To gather and keep Medlars and Services 76 Of the Fruit-loft stowing and managing Fruit for keeping 77 To make Cyder 78 Perry the best way to make it 79 To make Wine of Grapes To make Wine of Cherries 80 To make a good Wine of Currants To make excellent Gooseberry Wine To make Rasberry Wine 81 To make Mulberry Wine To make Wine of Services 82 Of Gardening and first of the Kitchen-Garden What is necessary to be done and observed therein for setting sowing rearing and bringing to perfection Seeds Herbs Plants Roots c. 83 Further Directions for the well ordering this kind of Garden in many material particulars In its side and furnishing with Herbs Plants c. 86 Several growths of Herbs and Plants distinguished to know the better how to place them 87 Sundry sorts of useful Herbs their encrease well ordering and preserving c. 89 Rules in general for ordering Herbs c. 91 Of Roots proper for the Kitchen-Garden their well ordering and improvement 92 Beans Pease Artichoaks Asparagus Cabbages Colliflowers Savoys Lettice c. to order and improve 94 Hot Beds how to prepare and fit them for such Things as require to be set in them 99 Watering the proper time and what Plants Herbs c most require it and in what seasons 101 The several sorts of Strawberries the manner of setting transplanting and improving them 102 The Gardener's Almanack or Things proper to be done in the Kitchen-Garden in the several Months of the Year 104 to 120 How to know particular Flowers that will alter for the best ibid. Choice Directions for sowing of Seed and setting c. 122 Things convenient to be considered to the Manner of laying c. 123 Artificial Sets how to make them To change the Colour of Flowers when in Blossom c. 124 A few useful Observations from Astrology ibid. The Gardener's Almanack directing what to be done iâ— the Flower-Garden c. in the several Months throughouâ— the Year c. 120 to 136 Flowers blowing this Month or continuing 129 Flowers Shrubs and choice Plants enduring several degrees of Cold how they are to be preserved Flowers and Plants not dying but by extream Cold 136 Flowers and Plants enduring the second degree of Cold Flowers and Plants the least of all enduring Cold 137 A further Description of Flowers as to their Shapes and Colours 139 to 148 The Gardener's Almanack for what is necessary to be done in the Green-house and Conservatory in preserving and well ordering choice Shrubs Plants Flowers c with the Time of Housing c. 148 to 15â— The Green-house and Conservatory for the preservation oâ— Plants Shrubs choice Flowers c. from Winds Frosts or cold Airs that would otherwise chill and destroy them 157 to 160 New ART of GARDENING WITH THE Gardener's Almanack In what is necessary for the well Ordering of Orchards and Gardens c. The Introduction or an Incitement to the Planting and well ordering Orchards and Gardens AS Orchards and Gardens are exceeding pleasant and desirable for Sight and Beauty when well and seasonably ordered so they likewise bring with them large Advantages being â—n extraordinary way oâ— improving Lands to a vast Vaâ—â—e even to Twenty-fould in a few Years in well Maâ—uring Cultivating and other good Management by â—hich our Ancestors have inriched Posterity in leaving â—ehind them Orchards Planted with stately and regularly â—lanted Tree whose Example minds us of Imitation â—hat succeeding Ages may know our Industry by what â—e leave in this Nature as lasting Monuments behind us Kings Princes and the wisest Men of all Ages haâ— some or other of them taken singular Delight in thâ— Exercise of Planting Setting Sowing and what elâ—â— is requisite in the well ordering of Orchards and Gaâ—dens and rejoyced to see the Fruits of their Labouâ— Solomon among the many Toyls of State and Affairs 〈◊〉 his Kingdom took exceeding delight in it and to stâ—dy the Works of Nature so that 'tis said of him 〈◊〉 knew the Use and Virtue of all Plants even from tâ—â— Shrub to the Cedar that is from the smallest to tâ—â— greatest The Planting of Trees for bearing the various Kinâ— of Fruits is undoubtedly one of the greatest Improvâ—ments that can be made of a considering part of oâ— English Soil as Worchesteshire Kent Gloucestershiâ— Herefordshire and other places can plentifully testifiâ— and this is more Universal than any other Improvemeâ—â— because most Land will bare one sort other of Fruâ—â— Trees Herbs Plants Flowers and such things as Orâ—â—mentally or Profitably as to accommodate Orcharâ— or Gardens for the Pleasure and Sustenance of Man As for the Charge of raising and planting Fruit-Treâ— considering the Years they must stand and the continâ—â— Encrease I look upon it as Trivial considering the Râ—compence they will soon make besides the abundanâ— of Pleasure it must be to any generous and active Miâ—â— to see flourishing Trees of his own Setting and peaâ—ably enjoy himself in Contemplation under the coâ—ing Shades of their spreading Branches to admire aâ— adore the wonderful Goodness of God in giving suâ—â— Virtue to the Earth for the producing rare and variâ— Kinds of things conducing to the Food and Pleasure Man And that it must be of singular use on sundry oâ—casions as appears by God's first placing Man in a Gâ—â—den which himself had caused to spring up and bâ— Fruits as the fittest place for the Reception of him evâ— in his State of Innocency and no doubt Adam was â—â—ceedingly grieved to part with it when his Disobedienâ— had forfeited the Possession These and many other things I might urge to proâ—ote this part of Industry accompanied with so much â—leasure and Profit but designing this only as an Inâ—oduction to the Practical part which immediately â—ollows in all its Generals and Particulars so that noâ—ing useful or necessary being omitted I shall not â—etain you longer from entering as it were into if I â—ay so term it another earthly Paradise where every â—ing Smiles and looks Gay to the Imagination even in â—eading How much more then will it exhilerate the â—ind when by Practice it is enjoyed in its Perfection â—nd flourishes to gratifie the Sight Taste and Smell of â—â—e Beholder with a fair Prospect pleasant Fruits and â—agrant Flowers wherein Nature is refined by Art CHAP. I. Of the good Site of a Piece of Ground intended for an Orchard c. THE Site or standing of an Orchard greatly advantages it that the Sun and free Air may have â—ower over it and yet so well defended with Shelter â—â—at Storms and bleak Winds may be in a great Measure â—ept from the injuring it and this good Site or standing â—ill help even a bad Soil The best Site I account to
from the Roots of grown â—rees and in removing them get all the Root â—ou can out of the Ground for if a main part of the â—oot be lost as some regard it not then it follows the Tree cannot thrive so well though upon the transplantâ—ng some of the Top be taking off for the Root has a â—ympathy with the Branches as to the greatness â—r smallness and when the Sap is straitned or lessenâ—d then is it that the Tree pines for want of its free â—urrency and Communication and when you take up â—he Root divest it not as little as may be of the Earth 〈◊〉 grows in for that upon the transplanting will be nourishing to it till it become better acquainted wiâ—â— the new Ground Too much Topping or Stowing approve not of because it very much hinders the growtâ— of the Tree and when you cut off any Branches dâ— it upwards that slanting it may shoot off the Wet anâ— not any way rive or split and if Clay and fine sisteâ— Horse Dung or Cow Dung were well mixed and clapped on the Cuts of the Branches it would be very proper to keep them from the Cold and Wet till they grow and begin to thrive unless you intend these Plants foâ— Grafting and then you may let the Tops grow till yoâ— cut the Stem for Inoculation in which you shall here after be instructed with all that is proper relating to it and set these in Rows by a Line in such Holes as yoâ— have prepared laying the Earth then lightly upon them after they are well placed in the Hole and heap it higheâ— then the Surface that it may well settle by Degrees and keep the Tree from the Roots being much shaken by thâ— Wind to which end whilst the Trees are young yoâ— must also use Stakes or Poles well fixed in the Ground fastned to the Plants by Hay-bands and some Moss oâ— soft thing clapped between to prevent the fretting thaâ— may accrue by the ratling or shaking of the Wind. Slips which some use are not so good by much to plant for either many of them miss to take Root or iâ— they do the Root being the main Wood doats and rots iâ— the Ground when the Tree comes to growth so that they are but of short continuance or at least-ways will buâ— weakly bare and those chiefly in Apple-trees yet a Bur-knot kindly taken from an Apple-Tree is much better and surer and this you must cut close at the Roots-end a handful under the Knot then cut away all the Twigs except the main one and set it deep in the Ground thaâ— it may only rise a little above the Surface and it wilâ— shoot up and become a good Stock especially for Grafting on if you like not the Fruit otherways As for large Fruit-trees there is danger in transplantâ—ng them for many times they do not thrive by reason â—f the injury they receive in the Roots for if some of â—he lesser Spums take they generally do not all so thâ—â—â—he Body not having sufficient Nourishment the Heart â—rows blackish or of a yellow colour and many times â—ho they bring forth fair Blossoms they have not strength â—nough to form their Fruit in the natural Perfection It has been Experimented that a Bough has been taken from a thriving Tree of a good bigness and grown to be 〈◊〉 Tree the manner thus Take off the Bark in a round Circle when the Sap is in it and make a Mortar of Clay â—ine Earth and a little Dung and clap on the bare place â—o the higness of a Foot-ball and let it lye till the Sap â—escends to the Root of the Tree then cut off the Bough â—â—anting on the hither side of the Mortar next to the Tree â—nd immediately put it into good Ground the Mortar â—nd all and cover it up close Water it sometimes and â—f this be done in October it will take Root and shoot forth in the Spring and if these stand they need not â—e Grafted on but will bear good Fruit of their own You may Sow the Kernels or Nuts of Trees in Nurseries and when they come up shelter and keep them Warm and in time they will afford you good Stocks â—nd Plants either to bear of themselves or to Graft on â—hough Suckers taken from the Roots of Trees grow â—aster than these till they get a Head but above all beware that Cattle come not into your Plantations or Nurseries to destroy them You may lay young Scions in the Ground where many sprout from one Master-top when cut near the Earth and by keeping them down with Sods one end being at liberty and growing upward they will be apt â—o take Root and so you may have four or five out of one in a little time and this is called a running Plant. As for the buying of Sets ready Grafted you may mainly be deceived in them as having only anothers Word what manner of Fruit they are and so you may be at most Cost and Labour about the worst Trees besides hinders the Experience you may gain in raising and oâ—dering them to the many singular Advantages CHAP. V. Proper times for Planting and Removing with the manner of Setting the distancâ— and placing of Trees c. WHEN you have made choice of your Sets tâ—â— the Ground being ready for Transplanting thâ— next thing to be considered is the time this is mâ— Proper to be done in and this account to be soon aftâ— the Fall of the Leaf in or about the change of the Mooâ— when the Sap is most quiet for then it is about turning but upon occasion it may be done all Winter in opâ— weather and early in the Spring when the Buds are juâ— putting out though as I have said the sooner you râ—move them in Winter it is the better some indeed 〈◊〉 remove them before the Sap is at a stand or about return that is in Autumn before the Leaves are fallinâ— but this I hold not so good and were it not for the falâ— of brevity could give you here many convincing reasoâ— to the contrary In setting make the Holes sufficiently large to â—â—ceive the Roots and more that they may have nâ—thing at first to contend with but the tender Mould shake that you have dug out lightly in when the Plaâ— is conveniently placed and in the mean while let anâ—ther move the Plant that the Earth may fill into thâ— cranies and settle better about the Root so press 〈◊〉 gently down that the Plant may be well fixed and 〈◊〉 a dry Season water it which being a settlement of thâ— Earth will make it take the sooner As for the distance of Trees you must consider the nature of them as to what greatness in time they may grow how spread their Branches as the Apple-tree or aspire more upright than the Pear tree if they be such as you intend shall continually stand for if they too much drop upon one another or the Boughs are galled by fretâ—ing or
if tâ— be first dipped in scalding Water and then taken 〈◊〉 quickly laid in dry Sand or else in some Heapâ— Wheat in the Shadow till they be wrinkled or elsâ— covered with Chaff as that they touch not the one orâ— other CHAP. XV. Of the Citron or Limon-tree how Planted and Improved THE Outlandish Citron is here very carefully planted This Tree doth always bear Fruit some falling â—ome ripe and some springing Nature shewing in them 〈◊〉 wonderful Fertillity There are several Kinds of them â—rom whence they have several Names I shall only name â—wo Sorts of them those that are long fashioned like an â—gg if they be yellow are called Citrons if they be â—reen Limons the Leaf is like the Bay-leaf saving that â—here grows Prickles amongst them The Fruit of them 〈◊〉 yellow wrinkled without sweet in Smell and sower 〈◊〉 Taste the Kernels like the Kernels of a Pear The â—ree is planted four manner of Ways of the Kernel of â—e Scion of the Branch and of the Stock If you will â—t the Kernel you must dig the Earth two Foot every â—ay and mingle it with Ashes You must make short â—eds that they may be watered with Gutters on every side 〈◊〉 these Beds you must open the Earth with your Hand a â—ands breadth and set three Kernels together with the â—op downwards and being cover'd water them every â—ay and when they spring set them diligently in good â—ellow Furrows and water them every 4 or 5 Day And â—hen they begin to grow remove them again in the Springâ—me to a gentle and moist Ground for it delighteth much 〈◊〉 wet If you set the Branch you must not set it above a â—oot and a half in the Ground lest it rot He that doth â—tend to cherish this Tree let him be sure to defend it â—om the North and set it towards the South and in the â—n in the Winter it Frails and Baskets This Tree deâ—ghteth to be continually digged about They are grafted 〈◊〉 hot Places in April in cold Countries in May not unâ—er the Bark but cleaving to the Stock near the Root â—hey may be grafted both on the Pear and Mulberry But when they are Grafted they must be fenced eithâ— with a Weather-basket or some earthen Vessel Sâ— as you mean to keep and must be gathered in the Nigâ—â— the Moon being down and gathered with Branches 〈◊〉 all as they hang. When the Fruit burdeneth the Tâ— you must pull them off and leave but few on it whiâ— will be the pleasanter and the kinder Fruit. If whâ— they are Young and Little they are put into Earth Vessels or Glass they will grow according to the Pâ—â—portion thereof So that you may have them fashionâ— either like a Man or Beast according to your Fancy 〈◊〉 you must so order your Moulds that the Air may coâ— to them They are highly esteemed of by great Perseâ— CHAP. XVI Of the Mulberry-tree how Ordered Plantâ— Grafted and Improved THE Mulberry of all other Trees is accounted 〈◊〉 surest bearer because it never blossometh tilâ— cold Weather be past So that whensoever you see 〈◊〉 Mulberry begin to spring you may be sure the cold Wâ—ther is at an end Yet is Ripe with the first and buddâ— out its Leafs They dye the Hands as Pliny saith wâ— the juice of the Ripe Berry and wash it off with the grâ— Berry It changeth his Colour thrice as Ovid alludeâ— his Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe first Whâ— then Red and lastly Black It loveth hot Places and Gâ—velly and delights in Digging and Dunging but not Wâ—tering It's Root must be opened about October and 〈◊〉 Lees of Wine pour'd upon 'em It is set of the Stones 〈◊〉 then it often grows to the Wild The best planting is 〈◊〉 Scion and the Tops a Foot and a half long smoothâ— both Ends and rubbed over with Dung. The Place whâ— you set your Sets cover with Ashes mingled with Eaâ— but cover it not above four Fingers thick I woâ— â—â—ve you to set it in March and to remove it in October 〈◊〉 November It is Grafted in the Beech or the White â—oplar either by Grafting in the Stocks or Inoculation â—d so shall the Berries be White It is Grafted also in â—g and Elm which in old Time they would not suffer for â—ar of Corrupting Of the Mulberry is made a very noble â—edicine for the Stomach and for the Gout they will â—ngest indure kept in Glasses the Leafs do serve to feed â—lk-worms withal whereof some make a very great gain The Cornel is a ruddy coloured Fruit like a Cherry â—his Tree is thought never to exceed twelve Cubits in â—eight the Body is sound and thick like Horn the â—eaf is like an Almond-leaf but fatter the Flower and â—e Fruit is like the Olive with many Berries hanging upâ—â— a Stalk first white and after red the Juice of the â—pe Berries is of a bloody Colour It loveth both high â—round and Vallies and prospereth both in moist Ground â—d dry It groweth both of the slip and of the Seed â—ou must be careful that you Plant it not near to your Bees The Bay is a most grateful Tree which chiefly garâ—sheth the House and useth to stand at the Entrance â—to maketh two Kinds thereof the Delphick and the â—press the Delphick equally coloured and greener with â—eat Berries in Colour betwixt green and red whereâ—th the Conquerors at Delphos were us'd to be Crownâ— The Cypress-Bay hath a shorter Leaf and a darker â—een gathered as it were round about the Edges â—hich some as Pliny saith suppose to be a wild Kind 〈◊〉 groweth always green and beareth Berries he shoot 〈◊〉 out his Branches from the Side and therefore waxâ— soon old and rotten It doth not very well always â—th cold Ground being hot of Nature It is planted diâ—rs Ways The Berries being dry'd with the North Wind â—e gathered and lay'd abroad very thin lest they cluster â—gether afterwards being wet with Vrine they are set 〈◊〉 Furrows a handful deep and very near together In â—arch they are also planted of the slip you must set â—em not passing nine Foot asunder But so they grow out of Kind Some think that they may be Grafted 〈◊〉 another as also upon the Seruise and Ash The Bâ—ries are to be gathered about the beginning of Decembeâ— and to be set in the beginning of March CHAP. XVII Of Orchard Hazle-nut and Philbert-trees Their Improvement NUt-trees are commonly planted of the Nut as 〈◊〉 other Shell-Fruits are Of all Nuts the Almoâ— is esteemed to be the worthiest they are set in Februaâ— and prosper in a clear and hot Ground in a fat and moâ— Ground they will grow Barren they chiefly set such 〈◊〉 are Crooked and the young Plants They are set boâ— of the Slips of the Root and of the Kernel The Nâ— that you intend to set must be laid a Day before in sâ— Dung Others steep them in Water sod with Honeâ— letting them lie therein but only one
as are very tender till the next Month where thick or intangled Branches appear that may any ways gaul or fret or keep out the Air and Sun make them thinner by taking off some as the Tree will bear it Begin to trim and nail your Espaliers and Wall trees rub off the Moss from Trees the Weather being open or moist prepare your Scions for grafting whilst the Buds or Supports are not yet come and towards the end of this Month the Weather being open graft Cherrier Pears or Plumbs Remove Stocks proceeding from Kernels to advantageous Places either in your Nursery or where you intend they shall stand to be grafted taking off the part of the Tops and Roots sharpen and prepare your Tools for the Work of the succeeding Months Fruits in their full Virtue and still continuing Pears The Winter Norwich very good to bake thâ— Great Surreiâ— the Winter Musk the Winter Bon Chrâ—flein and Winter-bergomot Wall-fruit c. Apples The Winter Queening Harvey-apple Pomâ—water Marrigold Kentish pippin Golden-pippin Russeâ—-pippin French-pippin John-apple Pome-roy Goldeâ— drucet Reniting Winter-pearmain Loons-pearmain aâ—â— some others that are with good keeping well secureâ— from the Violence of the Frost and exclude all Rotting as the Redstreak the Puffin the Wilding the Gilliflower apple c. Pisces ♓ FEBRUARY IN this Month prune Vines and other Fruit-trees bind nail plash and dress especially Wall-Fruit sucâ— as are tender for now the greatest Danger of the Frosâ— hurting them is in a manner over and finish this Worâ— before the Bearers and Buds swell however in Nectâ—rines and other choice Fruit it may be omitted till thâ— next Month especially if the Weather be very cold Bind the colateral Branches to put the Wall-trees in 〈◊〉 good shape but strain them not too roughly or unnâ—turally for that hinders the Sap in its free Motion anâ— in this and well pruning lies one Master-piece of a Gaâ—dener as to these Particulars The Grafts of former Years Grafting may be now râ—moved lay and cut Quick-set trim up your Espaliers and the Hedges of your Palisadoes and hitherto you may set the Vines and divers Sorts of Shrubs Kernels or Stones of Fruit are proper now to be set or sowed This is a proper Month for the Circumposition by Baskets or Tubs of Earth and such Branches as you would leave to take Root may be now layed in the Earth Moss your Fruit-trees and apply Remedies for Canâ—ers as cutting them out and laying on a Plaister of â—idgeons dung Tar and sweet Butter Drain your Orchard and rid it of the Wet that lies sapping at the Roots of the Trees either Proceeding from Rain melted Snow or Springs Cast good Earth â—out the Roots of the Trees cover those that were â—id bare prune off the Webs of Caterpillars hanging on the Twigs or Branches After Rain pick up Worms and Sug-snails and destroy them by putting them into hot Water or Lime About the middle till the latter End of this Month it may be very proper to graft in the Cleft and this necessary Work may be held on till the End of March especially Pears Plumbs Apples Cherries and it is best done in the New and Old Moon Fruits in their full Virtue and still continuing Pears The Winter Poppering the Winter Bon-chrestein the Little Dagobert the Warden Apples The Reniting the Loâ—ns Pearmain the Kenâ—ish Kirton the Holland Pippin the Winter Queening the Harvy-apple the Golden Doucet the Pome Roy the Russet-pippin Aries or the Ram. MARCH YOU may yet dung your Orchard and plant Trees that remain yet unset tho it had been better done in the last Month unless in moist cold Places that are very backward This whole Month you may Graft first with Peaâ—â— in the beginning and so conclude it with Apples unlessâ— it be in an extraordinary forward Spring wherein the Trees put very early out both Leafs and Blossoms Nectarines and Peach-trees may successfully be planted but forbear to take off the Top of the Root as of other Trees is proper by Reason it will endanger their taking Root at all or at least hinder their Growth and Thriving Cut off the Tops of your budded Stocks anâ— prune Grafts of the last Year Uncover your Seed oâ— Kernel-beds or if the Weather be cold or much weâ— refrain it till April Stir the new planted Ground anâ— well lay and order it Cover Tree-roots that have continued bare since Autumn and cut your Quick-sets trim your Fruit in the Fruit-lofts but open not the Windows lest too great 〈◊〉 Confluence of Air putrifie and cause them to rot Fruits still Lasting and in their Virtue Pears The Double Blossom Pear the Bon Chrestien Apples The Winter Pearmain the Golden Doucet 〈◊〉 Loons Pearmain the Pippin the Reineting Taurus ♉ or the Bull. APRIL KEEP your Orchard free from Weeds water Treeâ— where they are upon a dry Ground but ever dâ— this at a distance that the Water may soak leisurely 〈◊〉 the Roots Hang well betimes such Borders as yoâ— Wall-fruit stands in and refresh the Ground with Conâ—post set no Flowers there that they may not hindeâ— their stirring the Ground keep Weeds clear as alsâ— Worms and Snails only the Outverges you may adoâ—â— with a Border of Pinks or any pleasant Thing that â—ows low and will not shadow the Heat of the Sun â—om the Root of the Tree and you may sprinkle the â—st with Salleting but when they begin to run to Seed 〈◊〉 aspire Pluck them up Roots and all or as soon as â—hey are fit for young and tender Salleting Graft by â—pproach Oranges Lemmons Pomegranades c. Fruits still Lasting and in full Virtue Pearâ— The Oak-pear the Bon-Chrestien the Double Blossom the Rowling-pear Apples The Deux-ans Pippins Flat Leinet Westbury Apple Gilliflower Gemini ♊ or the Twins MAY. THIS Month as to Matters in the Affairs of Orcharding in a manner gives the Arborists rest only be careful to keep under the Weeds spread and bind down the Branches and Arbours and clip such Trees as require it for a Pleasantness and Shape Bring the Orange-trees out of the Conservatory at such Times as you see the Mulberry-tree put sorth and open its Leafs let the Weather be what it will for that is an Infallible Rule for the proper Season to Transplant and remove them but do it with Care drawing the Tree out with competent Mould sticking to it when you have well loosed it from the sides of the case and so with better ease place it in another filled with Earth taking up the first half split just under the Turf of the richest Pasture Ground in a place that has been well fothered and take rotten Cow-dung one part and mix with this or at least very mellow Soil well skreened or sifted and if this proves too stiff sift a little Loam in it or a little Lime with the small rotten Sticks of Willows then cut the two extravagant or thick Roots a little 〈◊〉 the Bottom and set the Plant but
shallow rather 〈◊〉 some of the Root be seen than it be too deep If yoâ— cut off any Branch make a Sear-cloth of Rosin Turpeâ—tine Bees-wax and Tallow and place it upon the Wounâ— till it is healed As for the Cases they must have such vent at the Boâ—tom that the wet may moderately pass out and not staâ— in any abundance to corrupt or rot the Fibâ—â—â— of thâ— Roots Water this kind of Trees with Water whereâ— Sheep and Neats Dung has been digested in the Sun tâ—â— or three Days and that moderately at first and so mâ—â— by degrees Keep the Earth loose about them for tâ—â— first Fortnight after they are brought out of your Coâ—servatory or Green-house and kept them the while iâ— the shade and then you may expose them freely to thâ— Sun but not when it is too scorching by lying too loâ—â— on them but where sometimes the intermission of shadâ— of Trees may refresh them with coolness Give this Month your other housed Plants a little fresâ— Earth to the old stirring that up lightly with a Forâ— not injuring the Roots enlarge the Cases as the Treeâ— grow bigger from 16 Inches to near a Yard Diameter Brush and cleanse off the Dust when you take theâ— out of your Houses and such as you Transplant not parâ— off above an Inch of the Surface and lay new Earth 〈◊〉 rather Compost of Meats dung and the ouze of the Bottom of the Tanners Pits both being old so that the we may wash down the strength of it to the Bottom of thâ— Root nor need you trim the Roots of any Verdures unless much matted or intangled but it will be proper 〈◊〉 change their Cases once in three or four Years As for Fruits in Season Prime or still Lasting they are Pears The Winter Born-chrestine the Great Kareville the Black Pear of Worcester the Double Blossom Pears the Surrein Apples The Forward Codling the Gilliflower-appl◠〈◊〉 Marigold the Russeting the Maligar the Westbury â—â—ples the John Apple Pippins The May Cherry and â—â—rawberries Cancer ♋ or the Crab. JUNE ABout the fourteenth Day of this Month you may begin to Inoculate Pears Apples Apricots Peaches Plumbs Cherries c. Cleanse the Vines of luxuriant Branches and Tenderness crop them rather than cut 'em and stop the second joint directly before the Fruit and some under Branches that are fruitless particularly Vines that are young planted when they but begin to bear and so forward binding the rest up to the Props or Stays Water Trees lately planted and cover the Roots if you can get it with Fern almost rotten about a Foot of the Stem having first eradicated all Weeds that grow about them Place near the Stem a Tub of impregnated Water â—ap about it a reasonable length of Woollen-cloth or Flannel let one end of it hang in the Water so that thereupon the moisture ascending the Bark will draw it in and much cool it in this and the two following scorching Months thereby preventing the Fruit falling off untimely by reason of excessive heat that wastes the moisture and this way will recover the Verdure of a Tree that is fainting and languishing for want of moisture by reason of great droughts or scorching of the Leafs and smaller Boughs by the Sun's hot Beams but do not continue the Water so long that it may sob the Bark lest it by over-watering injure the Tree If Trees that used often to be removed or carried to and fro from your Conservatory be hurt or languish you may this Month give them a Milk-diet viz. delute it with a part of Water discreetly applied as you find amendment or by Planting them in a hot Bed lettiâ— them down into a Pit in the Earth two or three Foâ— deeper than they are high and so covering them with Glass-Frame which refreshing often enlivens and râ—stores them according as the young Tree is either waâ—ting in warmth or Nourishment Fruits in Season and Prime Cherries Black White and Red Flanders Heaâ—â— Duke Early Flanders Lukeware Spanish Black Câ—mon Cherry Naples Cherries c. Strawberries Râ—berries Currants Pears Green Royal St. Lawrence-pears the Dagdaleâ— the first Ripe of Pears the Madera Apples The Pippin the John Apple the Red enoâ—â— the Robillard Leo ♌ or the Lyon JULY WAtering young Trees not long Planted as also Laâ—ers and the like Re-prune Peaches and Aprâ—cots save many of the likely young Shoots to be layed iâ— the Ground that they may further increase for noâ— usually the old Berries perish and are succeeded by neâ— ones cut them close and even well pruning yoâ— Wall-fruit of the Leafs that are superfluous hinderiâ—â— the Suns warmth from the Fruit but bare not the Frâ— too much lest it prove injurious especially to Vines When the Fruit requires filling or is forming makâ— Holes about a Foot and half from your Wall-fruit without Wounding the Roots and Pour in Water you maâ— let the setting sticks you make them with stand in theâ— a little loose so that water may come to the Roots leâ—surely or this may be done with semi-circle Trencheâ— at a like distance Towards the latter End of this Month visit the Vines â—in and stop the Luxuriant Branches or Shoots at the â—econd Joint above the Fruit if you have not finished it â—efore but let there be some Umbrage in your exposing 〈◊〉 to the Sun that there may not be too much of the heat Hang Bottles of cool Water near your red Roman Nectaâ—â—ines and other lushious Fruit to destroy the Wasps that come to eat and spoil them and also Flies Set the Hoofs 〈◊〉 Neats Feet to take Earwigs in which are equally misâ—evous and at Noon shake them into Water to deâ—â—roy them Destroy Ants to preserve your Orange-trees when flowered by pouring scalding Water or rather Urine on their Hills Pull off the Snails that you will find â—â—der the Leaves above the Fruit but not the Fruit that 〈◊〉 bitten for then they will fall to biting afresh Have â—n Eye upon Weeds pull them up where they sprout begin to hang them as soon as they peep out of the Ground and by this means you will rid more in a few Hours than in many when they are grown up Lay Lawrels Mirtles and other delicate Greens Waâ—er choice Shrubs and when ever you shift them trim the Roots and give them good store of Compost Clip Box after gentle Showers of Rain and in Watering it well thereupon the Scent will not be Offensive to any thing that grows near it Graft by approach Inarch and â—â—oculate Oranges Jesemines and curious Shrubs taking off the Surface of the Earth about the latter End of this Month put cooling fresh Earth to them that they â—ay the better weather the hot Season In the dryest Season strow Pot-ashes or sprinkle Brine which improve Grafts and destroy Worms Waâ—er your Green-walks with Water wherein Tobacco Stalks have been boiled and it will kill Worms and other Insects that infest them Fruits in Season Prime or yet remaining
them infuse in an earthen Vessel 2 or 3 Days close covered then bruise the Berries in the Wine and through a fine Linnen Bag strain and gently by degrees squeeze out the liquid part let it gently simper over a very moderate Fire or place a Stein in which it is on hot Wood-ashes or Embers scum off the Froth or what else arises strain it again and with a quarter of a Pound of Loaf-sugar to a Gallon let it settle then in half a Pint of White-wine boil about an Ounce of well scented Cinamon and two or three Blades of Mace an put the Wine strained from the Spices unto it and Bottle it up and so it will prove an excellent Drink and Cordial To make Mulberry Wine TAKE Mulberries just growing to be ripe that is when they are changing from red to black to a Gallon put a Quart of Rhenish Wine let them infuse in a close Vessel 44 Hours and then in all respects use them as the Rasberries and it will be a great Cooler on noâ— Weather and a Cordial in hot Diseases If the Liquid be too thick or incline to roping at any Time â—ver when you drink it you may add more Wine vs best suits your Palate and so you will find it answer you Cost and Labour To make Wine of Services THIS tho' not usual is very pleasant and Cordial and to make it Take the Services from the Stalks when they begin to be soft bruise them with your Hands that you may not break the Stones infuse them in warm Sherry a Gallon of them in 2 Quarts and as much clear Small-beer then strain and press out the liquid Part fine it and put Powder of white Sugar-candy a quarter of a Pound to a Gallon and bottle it up for use Thus having gone thro' whatever I conceive material to be practised for Advantage and Improvement in as Orchard c. I shall proceed to the like in the Delicacies of Gardening as to what relates to Profit and Pleasure which will be my succeeding Task in such a degree that nothing in Print has hitherto come near it by many degrees OF GARDENING And First of the KITCHEN-GARDEN That is necessary to be done and observed therein for Setting Sowing Rearing and Bringing to Perfection Seeds Herbs Plants Roots c. CHAP. I. Of the Soil Site and Form of a Plat of Ground suitable to be Improved for a Kitchen Ground THE main Thing in this as in the former is to find out a fitting Plat of Ground and if it be not Fertile of itself so to cultivate and manure it as it may answer your Expectations and in this especially at first there must be a great care taken or you may bestow much Labour and Cost to little perpose The Soil of an Orchard and Garden may be said only to differ in this that the Soil of the latter must be somewhat dryer than the former because Herbs and Flower being mostly more tender than Trees cannot well endure too much moisture or drought in such excessiâ—â— Measures as Trees will do and therefore chusing a moderate dry Soil if drought come it is easier remedieâ— than to take away wetness that infests the Ground from Springs or the Lowness of its lying whereby it receiveâ— and keeps long the Rain-water The Soil of your Garden must be plain and well levelled at every Square to be cast into the fittest Form aâ—â— the reason is the Garden-product want such Helps 〈◊〉 should stay the Water which an Orchard hath and thâ— Roots of Herbs being mellow or loose is soon either washed away or lose their Vigour by too much washiâ—â— and moisture Again if a Garden soil be not clear of Weeds especially of Knot-grass it will never produce any Thing kindly and as the Richness or Barrenness of the Soil appears to produce so manure less or more at first digging it up a full Spit or something more and trenching in the Dung so that upon the Falling of Showers it may soâ—â— indifferently alike to fertilize the whole Mass or such Plats as your particular Materials require And to keep down the Weeds sow Ashes mingled with a little slack'd Lime which will also destroy Worms and other Insects that infest Walks Alleys Borders devouring the Seed in the Earth or the tender Roots or Leaves of Plants when sprung up This must be done in October or November that all Things may be well prepared against the Spring having your Tools and Instruments always in a Readiness that no Occasion may be omitted to facilitate the Work in its proper Season As for the Site of your Garden it may be the same with that of your Orchard seeing they both tend to one main end of Profit and Pleasure however the leveller it lies the more commodiously it produces It must not be much exposed to bleak Winds for there are many tender Herbs Flowers and Plants necessary to be sowed set 〈◊〉 planted which will not live if that be admitted and 〈◊〉 will well prosper and therefore the Garden-plat â—â—st be well Fenced and Secured from the North and â—â—rth east Winds especially with high Walls or good â—icksets well lined and thickned with Shrubs at the â—â—tom not only to keep out the Cold but Cats Dogs â—â—res Conies and other Things that greatly annoy Garâ—â—ns especially in their first Propagating by Breaking 〈◊〉 Spoiling the tender Plants of Flowers as likewise do â—â—ultry which must not be permitted to enter Let your Garden-plat be designed as near as you can 〈◊〉 good wholesome Air not near any Fenny or Marshy â—â—ces or any other whence Damps Fogs or Stenches â—ay arise or Blasting Infectious Airs to blite or Poyson â—he Plants Herbs or Flowers As for the Form of the whole Plat of Ground the â—â—are is accounted most Commodious next that the 〈◊〉 the Oct-angular but here I can see no general â—â—le because every Ground cannot be accordingly proâ—â—rtioned and therefore it must be done as the conveniâ—â—ty will admit but as for special Forms in the lesser â—â—â—dens they are divided into many and particularly sâ—â—ares and of the Knots and other Fancies there are 〈◊〉 many Devices as the Gardener's Invention will admit 〈◊〉 for which the Skilful are to be commended in bringing with them Boards nailed to the Stakes driven well in the Ground into various curious Figures or to do it in naturally by setting of Box Aysop Privet Marjorum Lavender Draff Rosemary or the like in various Circiling Intwining or Mazy Forms so that Herbs Flowers and curious greens may grow in their proper order exceeding delightful to the Eye These may be made of green Turf planted with double Dazies or Violets made up with Brick Tile Trotter-bones or the like but they are best raised with Boards And indeed in Knots they are great Varieties as the Diamond-Squares or Ground-plat for Knots the Cinquefoil or many Mazy Branches like the Leaves of Cinquefoil the Cross-bow or Four bendings from the outsides of the Square like the
Heads or Bending of Cross-bows with a Diamond and a Square at the midst of it and other Flourishes to fill up the Vacancies of the Angels and Bends The Interwoven or Knotâ— flourished Diamond the Oval the Maze or Labyrinth's and many more which in Words cannot be well expressed but rather require Figures being far more obviouâ— to the Eye than to the Ear and of which I shall have more occasion to speak of when I come to Treat of Choice Flowers c. and therefore at present I shaâ—â— proceed to other Matters Further Directions for the well ordering this kind of Garden in many material Particulars in its Sight and Furnishing it with Herbs Plants c. AS for the Quantity of a Plat of Ground to make a Suitable Garden there can be no particular Rules given but every one may take such a Proportion of Ground as conveniency will admit But let me caution all not to undertake more than can be well looked after with Hands enough for the well Management of Things in their proper Seasons for a small Plat of Ground well ordered turns to greater Advantage than a large one neglected or that upon sundry Occasions cannot be so well compassed in due time for if the Weeds get the Mastery for want of Hands to rid them it will not be easie to root them out Also watering a large Garden in droughty Weather requires much Time and Pains and therefore my Opinion is That one of a moderate Quantity of good Ground is to be preferred and may produce a sufficiency of Herbs and Roots for use and a supply for the Market But to come nearer to the intended Purpose Herbs are of two Sorts one for Scent and pleasant Prospect the other for Food and therefore it is proper they be sowed or planted separate and not too much mingled together to hinder each others Growth by the â—ers over Topping and shadowing the lesser and before the Garden for Flowers and curious Herbs â—t to be separated from the Kitchen-Garden by some â—inction tho' one Plat of Ground may contain them 〈◊〉 because your Garden-flowers will not only suffer grace but he annoyed if among them you sow Oniâ— Lettice Carrots Parsnips and the like which â—wn in their due Season must moreover leave Roughâ— and Deformity on the Earth and if not set at a conâ—ent distance take up the Roots of the Flowers 〈◊〉 them and make a Confusion and Disorder where â—â—er and Comeliness should be Besides the Times of â—â—ng and ordering them are various and the Ground 〈◊〉 much stirred for the Planting the one injures the 〈◊〉 other Cabbages Colliflowers Colworts and the â—t making great shadows to keep out the Sun-beams â—sparagus and the like run its Root much spreading â—hich drawing up brings away with it those lesser â—ants and Flowers it has undermined or entangled And â—o many other Things in their fading Time are to be â—â—n and others planted in their steads And in the â—itchen-Garden you need not be at the trouble to raise 〈◊〉 Beds so high as in the Summer-Garden yet it is reâ—â—site you leave Alleys to go between for the Advantage â—f Weeding and gathering what is necessary in due Seaâ—â—n without treading on or any ways Bruising what reâ—â—ins for these Kind of Herbs and Roots will go deeper 〈◊〉 the Ground as requiring more wet than the other 〈◊〉 will better endure it Yet here you must observe to place your Herbs of the biggest Growth by themselves â—â—at all may have a proportion of the Sun's Heat and the â—â—eeness of the Air to make them thrive and come kindly on for use setting the biggest in the out Parts of â—quares or Borders and the lowest in the middle The several Growths of Herbs and Plants distinguished 〈◊〉 know the better how to place them THO' Garden Herbs Flowers c. are various aâ—â— very numerous it in some Measure they may 〈◊〉 divided into two Sorts and briefly thus Of the Tallest Growth are Angelica Fennel Tansie Holly-Hocks Elecampaâ— Loveage Succory Lillies French Poppy Endine Freâ— Mallows Clary and such like Of the Middle Growth are Alexander Cardus benedictus Langdibief Occuâ— Christi Aniseeds Coriander Featherfew Wall-flowers Gilliflowers Bugloss Parsley Marigolds Beets Bâ—â—rage Lavender Camfry and the like Of the Smaller Growth are Tansie Hearts-ease Marjorum Savory Leeks Chiveâ— Chibals Liquorice Strawberries Hysop Peniroyal Scuâ—vy-grass Time Wood-sorrel and many others too â—dious here to enumerate and therefore I have given theâ— as a Taste and many others will follow in their dâ—â— Place In the most Sunny places of your Garden place the teâ—derest Plants or such as you would have forward observing to keep them as warm as their Nature requireâ— either with Soil or Covering when sharp Winds are abroad the Weather is Nipping or that Blites or Blaâ— are expected â—â—ry sorts of useful Herbs their Encrease well Ordering and Preserving c. â—T will not be convenient that I give Instructions for the 〈◊〉 well Ordering and Renewing Herbs c. proper for 〈◊〉 Kitchen-Garden And of these in Order Angelica is renewed with the Seed which it bears in â—â—ty the second Year and then fades You may reâ—â—e the Roots the first Year And then in this manâ— you may use Alexanders Aniseeds make their Growth the first Year and bear â—ch Seed by which they must be renewed the next 〈◊〉 also Coriander Borrage and Bugloss are wholesome Pot-herbs and â—â—â—y Cordial Herbs otherwise used They are also reâ—ewed by Seed Camomile will easily grow being set of divided Roots 〈◊〉 Banks not too moist and the more it is pressed the â—uer it will thrive Chibals or Chives part in the Root like Lillies and â—â—st be renewed by transplanting the smaller Roots every â—d or fourth Year Clary is produced of the Seed and Seeds every second Year Coast-root parted may be set in March and then it will â—ar the second Year Elecampane and Lovage are long lasting they Seed â—early and in transplanting you may divide the Roots Endive Succory and Fennel divide the Roots and you â—ay remove them before they put forth their shanks Featherfew encreases by shedding its Seed without â—owing Hysop may be set by slips or young Roots and is long â—asting growing indifferently in most Grounds Leeks seed the second Year unremoved yet unless â—ou then remove them they die Lavender Spike is proper to be removed every Seven 〈◊〉 Eight Years Slips twined of these as also Hysop and Sage take Root if set warm at Michaelmas White Lavender must be sooner removed or transplanted Lettice Seeds the first Year and dies yet you may transplant them for Winter-Lettice and prevent their runniâ— to Seed Mallows French or Jagged Seed the First or Secoâ—â— Year Sow them in March Marigolds are usually produced of Seeds and you mâ—â— transplant them when two Inches grown Occulus Christi Seeds and dies the first Year Parsly is sown of Seed the first Year and Seeds the Seconâ— Penyroyal or Pudding-Grass lasts long spreading dâ—â—
keeping the natural Colour it will be well done in the shade however a little of the Sun is proper to prevent their being musty Now Mellons and Strawberries are in season and some other cooling Things Nature prudently providing such for the refreshing Mankind and theâ— kindly preservation of Health in hot Season while the hotter come seasonably in the colder Months Leo ♌ or the Lyon JULY Things proper to be done in the Kitchen-Garden this Month. THE beginning of this Month sow Lettice Radish c. for young and tender Salleting also latter Pease that they may be ripe in October Let Herbs designed â—r it run to Seed and carefully save it for a new supâ—ly Long-sided Cabbages planted in May may now be reâ—oved and cut away all rotten and putrified Leaves from them and be yet diligent in the Weeding and Cleansing part of your Garden hoeing up the Weeds so â—on as they begin to appear above Ground and by this means a great riddance may be made in a ltitle Time â—an in a longer when they grow up Root-deep and â—rove more cumbersome to the Ground Destroy Worms â—nd other Insects by sprinkling hot Ashes in the places â—hey most frequent and it will utterly destroy such as â—re touched by it when a little Rain descends on it It 〈◊〉 also a great Enemy to the Weeds tho' Grass is imâ—roved by it and it proves an excellent Manure for that purpose but lay not on too much in hot Weather unâ—ess much Rain falls to dissolve it and moistens the Earth by which means it may leisurely soak in and disperse itself Virgo â™ or the Virgin-Sign AUGUST Things proper to be done in the Kitchen Garden this month THIS Month sow Radishes particularly the black ones to prevent going to Seed pale tender Cabbages Colliflowers for Winter Plants Lettice Carrots Corm Sallet Marigold Spinage Turnips Onions Parsnips Angela curled Endive Scurvy-grass c. To prevent Plants running up too hastily to Seed draw the Root a little out of the Ground lay them slaunting and cover them again with fresh Mould and by that means it will be prevented To secure Colliflowers to bear good Heads that are aâ— to overspread or upon Flowers before their Heads câ— be quite perfected take them out of the Ground anâ— bury them in some cold place as a Cellar and boâ— Root and stalk to the very Head and so without beinâ— exposed to the very Sun they will harden and bear firâ— Heads Now take up your Onions that are well grown as alsâ— Garlick transplant the Lettice you design shall continâ— for the Winter Gather seeds and clip such Herbs as you design shooâ— continue well in the Winter before the Full of the Moon And towards the latter end of this Month sow Puâ—slane Chard-beet Charvil and such like Herbs for use taking the Mould finely over them and laying thâ— Ground smooth and even yet so well covered that thâ— Birds cannot see them to destroy them and if Showerâ— fall and wash them out of the Ground cover them agaiâ— in the same manner Libra ♎ or the Ballance SEPTEMBER Things proper to be done in the Kitchen-Garden this month SOw Skirrets Lettice Spinage Radishes Parsnips c. Cabbages Colliflowers Onions Anniseeds Scurvey-grass c. It is now proper to transplant Asparagus-roots anâ— Artichoaks Sow Herbs for Winter-store as also Roots get Strawberry plants out of the Copices or Woods and planâ— them in your Garden about a Foot asunder Towards the end of the Month earth up the Sallad-â—hs and Winter-plants set forth such Cabbage and Colliflower-plants as were sowed in August prepare Comâ—ost to be used in trenching and preparing and lay your Ground well for the approaching Winter where it is disencumbered as the occasion requires it and if the cold season hastily advances get warm covering for â—our tender Herbs either to preserve them well all the Winter or till such Time as you shall have occasion to â—pend them Scorpio â™ or the Scorpion OCTOBER Things proper to be done in the Kitchen-Garden this month THis Month that it may lie for Winter-mellowing trench the Ground Sow Genova-Lettice which will with a little care continue for good Sallading all the Winter with Glass-bells and straw over them in the hard Frost or Cold but touch them not presently after a Thaw lest you break or crack the Glasses This Month you may sow Radishes clear the Alley of all Leafs that have fallen lest they corrupt and produce or at least shelter Vermin to annoy your Plants and seeds and foul your Garden with their Excrements Prepare covering for tender Herbs and Plants and be diligent in rectifying what is amiss in every part that your Garden may not only be pleasant and delightful to the Eye but profitable in encrease by being disencumbered of offensive Things Sagitarius â™ or the Archer NOVEMBER Things proper to be done in the Kitchen-Garden this month THIS Month Trench fit to prepare your Garden Ground for Artichoaks carry Compost out of yoâ— Mellon-ground or mingle it by often turning with goâ— Earth so lay it in Ridges prepared for your Business oâ— the Spring Always note to sow moderate dry and plant moist but what you sow cover not too thick with Earth and there are many seeds you cannot sow too shallow so thaâ— they are covered sufficiently to preserve them from the Birds destroying them Set and sow early Beans and Pease which you may continue till Shrovetide Cut off the Tops of Asparagus cover the Roots with Dung or make Beds that they may be prepared for the spring planting Take up Patatoes a sufficiency for the Winter-spending and if they have been of any continuance tho' you search narrowly a sufficiency will escape to repair the Stock Lay up your Winter-store of Carrots Parsnips Turnips Cabbages c. as also seeds Capricorn ♑ or the Goat DECEMBER Things proper to be done in the Kitchen-Garden this month SOW for early Beans and Pease if a prospect of violent Frosts are not in view This Month is proper to Trench your Garden ground â—d dung it well set Traps to destroy Vermin and lay table-litter over such Herbs or Plants as can least enâ—re the Cold and what things are requisite to cover them now for either the Frosts are begun or very near approaching no Winter passing without more or less force of them which leave their marks and scars on most Herbs and Plants making them drop and languish for want of refreshing Heat to comfort them How to know particular Flowers that will alter for the best EXperience tell us that those Flowers which differ in Number of Leafs in colours and shape their seeds will produce Flowers much different from the ordinary Flowers tho' but a Year or two before produced all of one Flower nay a particular Flower among many others of one Plant will bring more double ones than 20 others that are not quallified in the same Nature As for Example the Stock-gilliflower that have five leaves or
to their decay Pisces ♓ or the Fishes FEBRUARY â—hings proper to be done in the Flower-Garden this month AS the Weather is seasonable air your housed Carnations particularly in moderate showers or warm Days and set them in again at Nights if nipping Wâ— or Frosts threaten them and so you may do by oâ— Flowers that are not very tender as in this Month â—cept extream Cold prevent it divers will be as I 〈◊〉 term it in prime Flowers blowing or continuing SIngle Anemonies Winter Aconite Hyacynthus Sâ—latus some double Anemonies Tulips Praeâ— Persian Iris Lucoium Bulbosum Deus Caninus bâ— Helebore Vertrall Crocus single Hepatica Vernalâ—clamen red and white early Daffodillies the giâ— white Arnithogals Muzereno the large leafed yelâ— Violets and some others Aries ♈ or the Ram. MARCH Things proper to be done in the Flower-Garden this Month. THis Month place stakes and bind up your weâ— Flowers to prevent the violent Winds injurâ— them Sow Pinks Plant-box and the like sow Carnatioâ— and Sweet-Williams from the middle to the End of 〈◊〉 Month Alternus most Perenial Greens Phillerea aâ— the like or these may be done later in the Month â—wards the End as the Season happens warmer or coldâ— Sow in Pots or Cases with fine mellow Earth Aâ—cula-seeds let the Earth be a little loamy and pâ— what you sowed in September in the Shade sprinkling â—le Water on them Plant latter Anemony-roots sucâ—sively in Parts of the Countries that are warm Transâ—nt Ranunculus and Fiberous Roots about the middle 〈◊〉 the Month as Primroses Turbose Cammomile Auâ—ulas Gentianela Matriâ—aria Helebore and other â—mmer-flowers This is also a proper Time to set Leâ—oium and towards the end of the Month slip Wall-â—owers or Keris Cannoluâ—lus Lupius Ordinary or â—nish Jessamine About the middle or latter End or this Month sow â—ter-flowers on hot Beds especially such as are the â—ural growth of hot Countries for the require much â—t till the natural Earth be warm enough to supply â—m by the heat of the Sun perfecting their Seed and â—inging them to a proportionable Stature and when 〈◊〉 Amaranthus is grown pretty high remove it into â—other Bed and so you may order African and sensitive â—ants particularly these ever keep under Glasses About the concluding of this Month set in the shade â—unculas Plants or Seedlings such as being choice you â—ave reserved in Pots Carnation-seedlings may be transâ—lanted also give Earth to the Layers that is fresh and â—oper for them placing them about a Week in the shade â—en cut off all the infected or drooping Leafs and the choice ones may now have their Cover removed The parting Frost and cold Winds are now prejudiâ—ial to your choice Tulips and therefore cover them â—ith Mats or other convenient shelter and take the â—e Care of the most esteemed Anemonies Chema-Iris â—ricula's early Cyclamen Brunal Jacinths c. Sow Balsamum-mas Balsamine Doctils Indian Phaâ—ollo Lentiscus Datura Pomâ—m-Amoris Flos Africaâ— Cana Indicum Casicum Indicum Flos Passionis â—aranthus and the like These require hot Beds till â—armer Season yet Nostratum Indicum Volabulis â—frican Marigolds c. may tollerably well subsist on cold â—eds tho' not so forward Your shown Cuprus tops reâ—ire to be wrapped about with Wisps of Straw Hay or the like if the easterly Winds continue sharp and coâ— with Peashawm or dry straw your Evergreens thaâ— Seedlings such as Pines Bays Phillyria Fir Cypâ— till two or three Years be gone over them in the Nâ—ry and are large enough to transplant lest the shâ— Winds dry them up and spoil them This you may do any Time in the Winter where â—tremity requires it but in fair and warm Weather or â—termissions from Cold you may uncover them the sâ— Winds more harming than the Frost or snow About the end of the Month with a moderate câ— on of the continuing sharp Winds or fall of the Fâ— you may uncover your choicer Plants but in sâ— Winds neither sow nor transplant lest by their drying and withering they frustrate your Expectation In the Full of the Moon sow stock Gilliflower seâ— that they may produce double Flowers and tho' sâ— think they can make this doubling by Art by using 〈◊〉 succation Magnomism or Medicines yet they will 〈◊〉 themselves mistaken or especially it is with grâ— Certainty done by removing transplanting enricâ— the Mold strewing and hardening the Ground anâ— for Variation and Change taking from the Root the 〈◊〉 Nourishment Now let Lentiscus Oranges Lemmons Dates Ammums Aloes and the like less enduring Plants aâ— Trees in the Portico Flowers blowing or continuing ARbor Indae Praecoce Tulips Rubus Adoratâ— Crown Imperial Spring Cyclamen Anemoniâ— Winter Aconite black and white Helebore Croâ— Bellis single and double Hepticae Chema-iris Leâ—coion Eritillaria Violets Prim-roses Puberosus-iâ— Hyrmodictils Persian-iris Dutch Mezereon Dâ— yellow Violets The great white Ornithogalum Dâ— Caninus Chelidonium the double Flower'd small Sâ—nish Trumpits or Jaquills Hyacinth Zeboin Bâ—mal Oriental Jaquills Great Chalciom and such liâ— Attendants on the Spring Taurus ♉ or the Bull. APRIL â—ngs necessary to be done in the Flower-Garden this Month. 〈◊〉 the beginning of this Month sow Digitalis double 〈◊〉 Marigolds Definum Cyanus of the various Sorts â—en Pansy Tufts Macipula Holiocks Scorpoides Medica â—eous Belvider Collumbines which every four or five â—s renew to prevent Loss and Decay â—ow continue new and fresh Hot-beds to accommoâ— such Plants as without them will want their perfectiâ— till the Earth has contracted a sufficient Warmth to 〈◊〉 in them Abroad and those Fibrous Roots as the last â—th were not transplanted now transplant them as â—roses Violets Heptica Matricaria c. and the â—ing Auriculas set in the shade â—ow Carnations Pinks c. cleanse and trim up the â—oots from dead and rotten Leafs sow sweet Williâ— after Rain that they may Flower the following Year 〈◊〉 Lucorum in the Full of the Moon and set Lupins â—rt the Off-sets from the Indian Tuberoses but beware 〈◊〉 break not their Phangs and these Off-sets in due â—e will produce Flowers set them in Pots of Natural â—h not such as is forced with a Layer of rich Earth â—neath to succour the Fibres but not touch the Bulâ— Roots set the Pots in Hot-Beds and water not the 〈◊〉 till they begin to spring and set them under a â—h-wall and in dry Weather water them much and â—gust they will produce curious Flowers In this manner order the Garnsey-lilly or Narcissus oâ— Japan Sea-sand mingled with the Mould wonderfull prosper them especially near the Surface and order thâ— Protuberant Fangs of the Yuca in like manner as the Tâ—beroses About the middle of the Month you may expose or sâ— out your Flos Cordinalis slip and set Marums Ranunâ—las water Anemonies and such Plants as are in Cases 〈◊〉 Pots as the Dryness of the Season requires it Prune or orderly regulate Anemonies Gilliflowers Câ—nations or the like where they stand too thick or 〈◊〉 subject to mat together
and so being thinned they 〈◊〉 produce the fairer Flowers Protect your Ranunculas Pennash Tulips Auriâ—las Anemonies from storms of violent Rain Hail 〈◊〉 the too scarching Beams of the Sun by covering theâ— with Mats supported with Hoops or bent Wands Crâ—â—â—ewise Bring forth your choice and tender Shrubs in a faiâ— Day but the Orange-trees may be continued housed 〈◊〉 the next Month and when you water them let it be doâ— with Rain or Pond-water luke-warm but not too much at a time Flowers blowing or continuing RAnunculas of Tripoly white Violets Anemonies Auricula Ursi Caprisolum Crown Imperialâ— Caprisolum Gentianella Deus Caninus Bell-flowerâ— Tritillaria Double Hepticas Starry Jacinth Florenceiris Double Dasies white and tufted Double Narcissâ— Chamae-Iris Cowslips Primroses Pulsatilla Ladies smock Tulips Medias Radix Cava Geranium Peritaria Lurea Caltha Palustries Persian Lillies Laâ—rea Caltha Palustries Persian Lillies Lucoicum Pâ—onies Muscaria Reversed Double Jonquills Persiaâ— Jessamine Acanthus and some others Gemini ♊ or the Twins MAY â—â—ings proper to be done in the Flower-Garden this month â—Hade your Carnations and Gilliflowers about this Season when the Sun has passed the Meridian and at the Full Moon plant in Beds your Stock-gilliflowers tranâ—nt forth Aramanthus and water Ranunculus so Anmum or set it gather such Anemony-seeds as you 〈◊〉 to be ripe and preserve it for a new supply keep it 〈◊〉 dry to preserve it from moulding or mustying cut stalks of those Bulbous Flowers that you find dry About the latter End of this Month take such Tulips as â—r-stalks are dried covering the Roots you find bare prevent their being scorched by the heat of the Sun or â—hed up with sudden Showers and if any of these Roots 〈◊〉 take up be Cankered the best remedy is speedily to â—ry them in fresh Mould Flowers blowing or continuing c. RAnuncula's of all Kinds the latter set Anemonies Anapodophylon Chema-iris Blattaria Cirisus â—ranthes Heleborine Cyclamen Augustisoi Cyanus â—ellow Lillies Aspodel Froxinella Cullumbines Buâ—ns-iris Digitalis Grranum Horminum Caiticum Glaâ—us Double Cotyleden Caltha Plaustris Tulips of vaâ—s sorts and Colours Jacca Lychnis Double Bellis â—hite and red Millefolium Luteum Phalangium Orcliis â—panish Pinks Lillium Convallium Rosa common Guilder Cinamon and Centifol c. Cherrybay Oleaster Tâ—chellium Hisperis Cowslips Anterrhinum Sedums Sâ—ringa's Veronica single and double Musk Violets Valerian stock Gilliflowers Ladies-slipper Chalcedom Star-flowers Ordinary Crowfoot Red Martagom Campanellas white and blue Bugloss Homer's Maly Persian Lillies Bee-flower Purple Thalictrum Pansis Lucoium Bulbosum Secotinum Sysimbrium singlâ— and double Sambucus Peonies Sea Narcissus and somâ— others Cancer ♋ or the Crab. JUNE Things to be done in the Flower-Garden this Month. THis Month gather such ripe Flower-seeds as are valuable and proper to be saved as Narcissus Aâ—runculas Oriental Jacinth c. preserving them dry a shade your Carnations from the Afternoon's Sun transplant Autumnal Cyclamen you design to change for a place more advantageous take up Iris Chalcedon Now you may make a beginning to lay Gilliflowers also take up the best Sort of Ranunculas and Anemonies after moderate showers of Rain the stalks dry and withered and the roots in a good Temper Take up the Bulbs of Tulips cover those presently that lie naked on the Beds or transplant them to a cooler soil water dry or parched Beds as also the pots of Japan Narcissus prevent some Scabious from running to seed which now may be done by removing them and so the following Year they will produce very good Flowers Take up the Roots of such Flowers and plants as will endure not to be out of the Ground and immediately â—plant them in fresh soil as Oriental Jacinth Cyâ—men Frittilania Iris-crown Imperial Deus Caniâ— Muscaris Bulbous Jacinths c. Flowers blowing or continuing c. DOuble Poppies Phalangium Allobrogicum Amazanthus Asphodell Hedisarum Giadiolus Claâ—antis Panonica Blataria Millafolium yellow and â—ite Martagon Red and white Gentian Helebore Niâ—lla Astrea Atticus Bulbous-iris Hedisarum early â—rk-heel Genistia of Spain Pinks Orinthgalum Mount â—lies white and red with some others Leo ♌ or the Lyon JULY â—ings proper to be done in the Flower-Garden this Month. â—â—ip stocks the beginning of this Month with other Lignous plants and flowers lay Carnations and Gilâ—owers not suffering to remain above two or three spinâ—s for the Flowers Take away the superfluous Buds â—port those that remain with stays against the Wind â—stroy Earwigs and other Insects that annoy them Layers in a good light loamy Earth will take Root six Weeks set as many of them as may conveniently one pot to save room in Winter let not too much â—et come at them if it prove too wet lay the pots â—e-ways and shade those that blow from the Heat of â—e Sun in the Afternoons Take up early Cyclamen Bulbs and Tulips which you may immediately plant or if Conveniency permiâ— not you may do it any time within a Month after trim them and cut off the Fibres spreading in an early Place very dry but do not separate the off-sets of Tulips and the like till the principal Bulbs be fully dry Gather seeded Tulips and permit the seeds to continue in the Pods also the seed of early Cyclamen and immediately sow it pots or cases Remove Crocus that are seedlings of the last Septemâ—ber giving them wide Intervails till they come to Peâ—fection Take up some sorts of Aurunculas Persian-iris Crâ—cus Crown Imperial Frettillaria and Colchicums plaâ— the Iris and the two last as soon as you have taken theâ— up if you have conveniency else in August or September may do tollerably well or you may defer their taking up till then and replant Colchicums remove Deuâ— Canius c. Sift your Beds from the Off-sets of Tulips toward the latter end of this Month also for Bulbous-roots Ranunculas Anemonies and the like which will preparâ— them for setting or plunging such Things as are in youâ— Pots and require to be set in the naked Earth till thâ— next Season some sort of Anemonies may now be soweâ— in Ground that is temperately moist cut away the withered stalks that incumber the roots of your Flowers covering the bared Roots with fresh Earth To destroâ— Worms and other Insects strew Pot ashes on your Grass plat and Carpet-walks and to the same end water youâ— Gravel-walks with Water wherein Tobacco-stalks havâ— been boiled Flowers blowing this Month or continuing ASpodes Amaranthus Phalangium Delphium Veronicâ— Odoriferous and Purple Sultan Connalnusus Volabilis Thlapse Criticum Geranius Triste Fraxenela Hedisaurum Corn-flower Alkengi Double and White Jacca Scorpion Grass Monthly Rose Jacinths and some others Virgo â™ or the Virgin-Sign AUGUST Things proper to be done in the Flower-Garden this month THis Month take up Bulbous Iris sow the Seeds of them as also of Collumbines Candy-Tufts â—ark-heels Holyocks Iron-coloured Fox Gloves and other Plants that have strength to endure the approachâ—ng season Plant some Anemony-roots for Winter flowers take â—o the last Years seedlings
transplant them for Bearers also Autumnal Crocus Deus Caninus and Colchiniâ—m's Sow-Oriental Jacinths Narcissus and replant such â—oots as will not well abide out of the Earth as Higaâ—nths Deus Caninus Lillies Martagon Fretarilla c. 〈◊〉 As yet you may slip Gilliflowers and take up Bulbous-â—oots As your Alaternus seed grows black and ripe â—ather it daily spread it to swear and put it up dry â—or use water Balsamin-faem and other seeds that you and ripe may now be gathered especially from Shrubs About the middle of this Month divide the large old Roots of Auricula's and transplant them in a light moist Earth Loamy or Sandy yet fertile and in the shade you may now likewise sow the seed of them also Anemony-seed toward the latter end of this Month. That of Raâ—â—nculas c. place them in light Mould in Cases modeâ—ately covered with Earth frequently refresh them and â—tep them in the shade Likewise Hepatica Iris Fraxeâ—ella Jacinths Cyclamen Primroses Tulips Martagon Pretillaria and the like tho' some of these from the Seed Flower not in four or five Years as the Tulip unless set so shallow that it cannot sink deep into the Ground however take care not to disturb their Beds weed them well and shade them till the great Heats are past lest too much Dryness spoil the seed but as for Primroses and Hepatica there need not be so much care taken of them Flowers blowing this Month or lasting c. ANagasis Nigella Luchnis yellow Millefolium Lucoion monthly Rose Thalpsi Creticum Cyclamen Vernum yellow Mountain Hearts ease Colchicum Autumnal Hyacinth Starworth Holiocks Elicclerioson Eringium planum French Marigolds Dasies Pansies Lark-heels Catchbly Lobells and some other Libra ♎ or the Ballance SEPTEMBER Things proper to be done in the Flower-Garden this month THis Month plant a few of the various sorts of Anemonies to be the earlier in naturally rich or improved Earth particularly the Latifol do it when the first Rains are over And now very properly you may sow Auricula-seeds placing the Cases in the Sun till April following You may also plant some Tulips Colchicum Daffodils c. Likewise Fiberous plants such as Primroses Violets Matricaria Capillaries Commomile Helebore Heptica and the like also transplant Cyclamen and Chalcedon If you think fit you may now sow Phillerea Alaternus or you may do it in the Spring Likewise Tulips â—tagons Delphinium Nigella Poppey Candy Tufts own Imperial and all Annuals that are not impaired the Frost in General So the seeds of Primroses and transplant seedlings â—gitalis and early this Month plant Lychnis-slips â—d your Tuberoses from the wet in this Season and serve the Roots out of the Rots in Sand or wrapped in paper place them in dry Boxes near the Chimney Fasten autumnal-Autumnal-flowers and plants to sticks that may â—ure them from breaking in violent Winds Take off Gilliflowers Layers with Earth and place â—em in shaded Borders or pots You may now raise â—ocus of seeds and such Flowers or plants as will not â—osper if housed set in pots in the Ground three or 〈◊〉 Inches lower than the surface of Beds you plunge â—m in expose them as much as may be to the South â—ath them with Glass-bells but in warm showers or â—en the Sun shines pretty warm you may uncover â—em and give them Air and so you may preserve the â—ost precious Flowers as Cistus Marum-syriacum â—os-cardinals Geranium Nocteolens Seedlings Arbuâ— Accacia Aegyptica Anemonies Ranuncula's c. and 〈◊〉 order them till April Guard you Marum-syriacum with Furzes or Bushes from the Cats for if they come 〈◊〉 it they will eat and destroy it Flowers blowing this Month or continuing c. ANagalis of Portugal Armaranthus Clamatis Autumnal Cyclamen Lynaria Cretica Limonium Indian â—illies Narcissus Chrysanthemum Stock-gilliflowers â—n flowers Spinosum Indicum Persian Autumnal â—arcissus Pomum Aurium Amoris Nasturtium Indiâ—n Gentianella Anual Tuberas Indian Jacinths yelâ—w Millefolium Virginian Phalangium and some oâ—hers Scorpio â™ or the Scorpion OCTOBER Things proper to be done in the Floweâ—Garden this month THis Month House Turbofe Narcissus and keep 〈◊〉 dry till April sow seeds as in September as yeâ— plant Anemonies particularly the Tenuifolio's in fresâ— sandy-Earth likewise set Ranuncula's taken from undeâ— the Turff but let the Bottom of the Bed be rich Mould so that the Fibres of the Root may reach it but not the main Roots which only cover with Natural Earth abouâ— two Inches deep and preserve them from the Frost with straw or Mats but in the warm Times of the Daâ— give them the free Air. Now plant Vernal Crocus and Ranunculas of Tripoly remove Holiocks about this Time you may plant choice Tulips and they will be sufficiently forward as also secured from Dangers mix Natural Earth somewhat impoverished white fine sand and plant them in it tho' at the Bottom within theâ— the reach of the Fibres you must place rich Earth Now beware your Carnations be not injured by the Wet therefore in Excess of Rain cover them so that the Air may however come at them or lay them on the sides and with fresh Mould trim them up you may now without Danger bury all sorts of Fulbous Roots as likewise Iris. Sow Phillirea and Alâ—ternus seeds mow Carpet Walks beat and rowl them as also Cammomile-beds and make an end of your last Weeding cleanse your Walks and Alleys from fallen Leafs which corrupting will produce Vermin Flowers blowing or continuing this Month c. LYmonium Lychnis Amaranthus three coloured Asser Articus Heliotrops Tuberos Jacinths Marâ—el of Peru Autumnal Narcissus Gilliflowers Virgin â—halangium Pomum Amoris and Aethiop-Garanium â—riste Aleppo Narcissus Pansies Spherical Narcissus â—yclamen Saffron Claments and some others Sagitarius â™ or the Archer NOVEMBER Things proper to be done in the Flower-Garden this month COver the Ranuncula's that are coming up prepare rich Earth made so with about half Dung sift on 〈◊〉 some sandy light Mould and Earth gotten out of holâ—w or doated Willow-trees put it in Cases or Pots in â—he Sun and sow in it Auricula-seeds If the Weather be open and seasonable plant the fairâ—st Sort of Tulips in Earth not over rich and let them â—e under shelter about the middle of the Month House your tender Plants and Flowers also set the choicest Carnation under a Pent-house or some such like shelter under a South Wall and in sharp Weather put a covering over them but not so close as to exclude the Beneâ— of the Air and for shelter of your Seedlings and choice â—lants prepare Matresses Pots Cases and Boxes plant Fibrous Roots also Althea-futax Roses Cytisus Cyringas â—eonies and the like cleanse and sweet the Walks c. Flowers blowing this Month or continuing c. MEadow Saffron Anomies Bellis Stock Gilliflowers Pancies Clamatis double Violets some kind of Carnations Anterrhinum Veronica Musk-roses and some others Capricorn ♑ or the Goat DECEMBER Things proper to be done in the Flower-Garden this month PReserve your